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Ed Williams
2,969 Points
Why not return a tuple (Bool, String) instead of an optional String?

Posted October 19, 2014 12:34pm by Ed Williams

Ed Williams
2,969 Points
3 Answers
orangebear
1,909 Points
What is the point of having named parameters? How do they help?

Posted October 16, 2014 3:17am by orangebear

orangebear
1,909 Points
3 Answers
Taylor Smith
iOS Development Techdegree Graduate 14,153 Points
I am stuck on this challenge. I'm not really sure what it's asking me to do. please help!!

Posted October 15, 2014 9:44pm by Taylor Smith

Taylor Smith
iOS Development Techdegree Graduate 14,153 Points
6 Answers
Nik Parekh
598 Points
Modify the println statement within the greeting function to use the variable person. For example, if you pass a person

Posted October 15, 2014 3:56pm by Nik Parekh

Nik Parekh
598 Points
4 Answers
Frankie Levangie
1,808 Points
In Stage 2 Tuple task 2 of 3. Create a variable named result and assign it the tuple returned from function greeting.

Posted October 15, 2014 3:51am by Frankie Levangie

Frankie Levangie
1,808 Points
9 Answers
Spencer Bunting
1,144 Points
I am stumped on the first task in this challenge how do I convert the strings in this function to a tuple?

Posted October 14, 2014 7:16pm by Spencer Bunting

Spencer Bunting
1,144 Points
7 Answers
Siddharth Setlur
2,523 Points
I don't understand what's wrong with my code

Posted October 14, 2014 4:38pm by Siddharth Setlur

Siddharth Setlur
2,523 Points
1 Answer
Danny Rasmussen
1,349 Points
i am not sure how to make a tuple! Please help

Posted October 14, 2014 3:37pm by Danny Rasmussen

Danny Rasmussen
1,349 Points
1 Answer
Spencer Bunting
1,144 Points
in the challenge section of this video, I am unable to apply the information from this video to the greeting func.

Posted October 14, 2014 3:33pm by Spencer Bunting

Spencer Bunting
1,144 Points
1 Answer
Sebastian Dizon
529 Points
I keep getting an error message saying that the code couldn't be compiled even though it runs fine on Xcode

Posted October 14, 2014 5:22am by Sebastian Dizon

Sebastian Dizon
529 Points
2 Answers
Matthew Chana
1,063 Points
Question - Amit says we can 'get a drink' before attempting to write our code. Can we have beer?

Posted October 13, 2014 5:54pm by Matthew Chana

Matthew Chana
1,063 Points
6 Answers
Matthew Chana
1,063 Points
Why doesn't the 'culprit' constant in the if let conditional require a "==" (is equal to)?

Posted October 13, 2014 4:48pm by Matthew Chana

Matthew Chana
1,063 Points
3 Answers
Siddharth Setlur
2,523 Points
Why is this code not executing

Posted October 13, 2014 3:38pm by Siddharth Setlur

Siddharth Setlur
2,523 Points
2 Answers
Rene Alimbuyuguen
1,464 Points
How to create a function that returns a tuple with elements named 'greeting' and 'language'.

Posted October 13, 2014 2:05am by Rene Alimbuyuguen

Rene Alimbuyuguen
1,464 Points
1 Answer
Alex Atwater
2,624 Points
What’s the difference between doing findApt(“”)?.toInt() and findApt(“”)!.toInt() Seems to do same thing...

Posted October 12, 2014 4:05pm by Alex Atwater

Alex Atwater
2,624 Points
1 Answer
Jason Zeall
7,860 Points
Not sure on the Tuple Question (iOS - Swift). To modify the greeting to return both language and greeting.

Posted October 12, 2014 4:20am by Jason Zeall

Jason Zeall
7,860 Points
4 Answers
ankushdharkar
7,530 Points
Does this video have some difficulty in playing?

Posted October 11, 2014 9:51pm by ankushdharkar

ankushdharkar
7,530 Points
2 Answers
Robert Kwiat
5,349 Points
Optionals in Swift Trouble

Posted October 11, 2014 2:46am by Robert Kwiat

Robert Kwiat
5,349 Points
1 Answer
Vittorio Somaschini
33,371 Points
isDivisible function: Is this code good?

Posted October 10, 2014 10:12pm by Vittorio Somaschini

Vittorio Somaschini
33,371 Points
7 Answers
Sean Kennedy
21,150 Points
Can anyone help?

Posted October 10, 2014 4:53pm by Sean Kennedy

Sean Kennedy
21,150 Points
1 Answer
kevin nadjarian
1,498 Points
Return function and string

Posted October 10, 2014 11:45am by kevin nadjarian

kevin nadjarian
1,498 Points
3 Answers
Derrick Threatt
806 Points
my answer is correct

Posted October 9, 2014 7:33am by Derrick Threatt

Derrick Threatt
806 Points
3 Answers
Robert Kwiat
5,349 Points
Tuples Troubles in Swift

Posted October 9, 2014 1:05am by Robert Kwiat

Robert Kwiat
5,349 Points
1 Answer
Brandon J
4,204 Points
im still stuck on the last challenge

Posted October 8, 2014 11:38pm by Brandon J

Brandon J
4,204 Points
2 Answers
Brandon J
4,204 Points
IM stuck

Posted October 8, 2014 8:19pm by Brandon J

Brandon J
4,204 Points
3 Answers
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Khaled F
Courses Plus Student 1,226 Points
function and constant name

Posted October 8, 2014 1:03pm by Khaled F

Khaled F
Courses Plus Student 1,226 Points
1 Answer
louis cornacchia
1,708 Points
having problem with challenge task 1 of 2 in "declaring a function".

Posted October 8, 2014 3:31am by louis cornacchia

louis cornacchia
1,708 Points
1 Answer
George Hamilton
2,777 Points
Is this correct? The if let syntax creates the culprit constant and assigns it the return value only if the value != nil

Posted October 6, 2014 11:24pm by George Hamilton

George Hamilton
2,777 Points
1 Answer
Alex Murawski
1,228 Points
What is the answer to task 3 of 3. I have tried everything and cannot figure it out.

Posted October 6, 2014 7:21pm by Alex Murawski

Alex Murawski
1,228 Points
2 Answers
Michael Ashby
512 Points
I am stuck

Posted October 5, 2014 11:27pm by Michael Ashby

Michael Ashby
512 Points
1 Answer

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